afflict

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afflict 是什么意思

中文释义

vt. 使苦恼, 折磨

英文释义

v. cause great unhappiness for; distress

v. cause physical pain or suffering in

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Washington’s version of McCall is disciplined but damaged, and possibly afflicted with something like obsessive-compulsive disorder.

—— The Action-Film Director Who’s Taking On Michael Jackson

But like so many of those other complex diseases that afflict humans, mice don’t naturally get Alzheimer’s.

—— What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid?

Until then, research like this can at least help parents better understand the debilitating disease afflicting their children.

—— How Childhood Dementia Ravages the Brain

But they suffer from a problem that afflicts nearly all online publishing.

—— The book review flourished in tandem with the Enlightenment. Now both are in decline, leaving a great deal at stake. David Bell explains

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